The abdication of King Ferdinand in favour of his son,
the Crown Prince Boris, and the formal accession of the new monarch to his uneasy throne, were announced on Monday. The Government of Bulgaria's tender of resignation was met by an expression of confi- dence in the Cabinet, and the King's request that the Ministers should remain in office. It is stated that before the act of abdica- tion all the Party leaders warred King Ferdinand that they "approved his decision." This sentiment—" We don't want to lose you, but we feel you ought to go "—will be heartily chorused by the other subjects of the ex-King, whose Manifesto attributes his desertion, in the face of national disaster and personal danger by himself created, to a newly discovered sense of the moral beauty of "supreme self-sacrifice for the good of our dear Fatherland." King Boris has publicly and politely endorsed this view of the transaction, disclosing himself to his people as a monarch "imbued with their democratic spirit." Even the German Kaiser is being rapidly converted to democratic ideals ; perhaps he may become a sound Republican, by conviction, before the end of the war.
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